John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU Project.
Gilmore in 2018
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties.
In early 2010, EFF released this poster in celebration of its founding 20 years before.
EFF booth at the 2010 RSA Conference
Image: Mitch Kapor
Image: John Gilmore